Amazon also fired a large number of people from the Alexa team last year. I don't really think Alexa is a major priority for Amazon at this point. I don't blam

Amazon also fired a large number of people from the Alexa team last year. I don't really think Alexa is a major priority for Amazon at this point. I don't blame them, sure there are millions of devices out there, but some people might own five device. So there aren't as many users as there are devices and they aren't making them any money once bought, not like the Kindle. Frankly I know shockingly few people who uses Siri/Alexa/Google Assistant/Bixby. It's not that voice assistants don't have a use, be it is a much much small use case than initially envisioned and there's no longer the money to found the development, the funds went into blockchain and LLMs. Partly the decline is because it's not as natural an interface as we expected, secondly: to be actually useful, the assistants need access to control things that we may not be comfortable with, or which may pose a liability to the manufacturers.